History ImprovisedWeapon / AnimeAndManga

* In the [[Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaAkiraHimekawa manga adaptation]] of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'', Link manages to defeat the Ball & Chain Trooper by throwing a jar at it. Since the Trooper is actually a suit of AnimatedArmor, the enemy falls apart when the helmet is knocked off.

* ''Manga/ElfenLied'':
** Lucy of ''Manga/ElfenLied'' does this using her vectors to throw things with blinding speed and accuracy, including pens on numerous occasions.
** Which, while awesome, isn't nearly as improvised as Nana using her own prosthetic limbs for the same purpose.
* David from ''Anime/BloodPlus'' once escaped a tense situation by grabbing a hostage and threatening to stab him in the neck with a pen.

* In ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'', Shigure is told not to use bladed weapons against a group of attackers [[LudicrousGibs for obvious reasons]]. So she slices apart their weapons with a wooden rice spoon.
** And later she defeats them with a sword controller.

* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'': Hei doesn't use this trope excessively in season one, but come season two and he pulls out all the stops[[note]]since he suddenly [[BroughtDownToBadass has to be a little more creative]]...[[/note]]. He explicitly explains the concept of using this in combat, then demonstrates it by distracting Suou with a few thrown nuts and bolts, followed swiftly by a snowball flung hard enough to floor her and leave a mark on her face that persisted for the rest of the day.

** Someone had Hei disarmed [[NoMisterBondIExpectYouToDine and was trying to recruit him over lunch]]-- he grabbed a dull table knife, and slammed it through his hand, pinning it to the table.

* Though it usually uses more-or-less conventional weapons, ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' had one example of unusual weapon choice. Specifically, Asuka in ''[=EoE=]''. Battery of self-propelled rocket launchers, [[StuffBlowingUp meet]] the frontal armor of a naval battleship.

* In ''Manga/BlackButler'', Sebastian fights a mafia group in a mansion using the dinner plates on the dinner table and the forks and butter knives he snuffed out of Ciel's home. Result = Major badass.

* ''LightNovel/FateZero'' has [[TheBerserker Berserker]] whose Noble Phantasm Knight of Honor allows him to turn every kind of thing that can be recognized as a weapon in a Noble Phantasm. Due to his skill "Eternal Arms Mastership", he's also an InstantExpert, he can use any weapon as though he had trained with it his entire life, even if it isn't even a weapon he should be able to even understand. The Improvised Weapons are e.g. street lamp poles, enemy swords and spears, [[spoiler:two [=MP5K=] machine guns and a fighter jet F-15J]].

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'''s [[AxCrazy Claire]] [[PsychoForHire Stanfield]] doesn't really care ''what'' he uses to kill people with, just as long as the [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill end result is really,]] ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill really]]'' [[{{Gorn}} bloody]]. Examples include guns, knives, scissors, rope, railroad tracks, his bare hands, and his own ''teeth''.
* Kaname from ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic!'', arguably. She knocked Sōsuke out using the second base from the school baseball field by throwing it and hitting him right in the base of the neck. ImprovisedWeapon Master, indeed.

* Things that ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'''s Shizuo Heiwajima uses as weapons: crowbars, trash cans, traffic signs (up to and including those giant ones for freeways), guardrails, mailboxes, playground equipment, park benches, vending machines, motorbikes, van doors..the list goes on. If it has even a minor chance of breaking every bone in Izaya's body, he's probably going to use it as a weapon.

* In episode 5 of ''LightNovel/BodaciousSpacePirates'', Marika, the main character, uses the solar sails aboard the Odette II to blind a ship that's attacking them using optical sights (their electronic sensors were down due to being hacked). She stops short of having the concentrated solar beams melt the enemy ship. Before the Lightning 11 can recover, several other ships arrive to perform a GunShipRescue.

* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', during the Alicization arc, Kirito and Eugeo are imprisoned beneath Central Cathedral, and chained to the walls of their cell. Kirito realizes that the chains, being durable, are good weapons, so after breaking them against each other (the only thing strong enough for the job), Kirito and Eugeo wield them until they recover their swords.

* [[Manga/CodeNameSailorV Sailor V]] probably used the most improvised weapon ever: when faced with a mosquito-based youma and his army of mosquitoes, she grabbed the ''mosquito-repelling incense'' she was carrying and infused it with the power of the Crescent Beam.

* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', there is a thin line separating any given martial artist from being a practitioner of this trope or an ImprobableWeaponUser. Of the main characters, however, Ranma Saotome and Akane Tendō are the ones who come closest to this, being ready, willing and able to pick up and use anything that is around as a weapon. Being practitioners of SupernaturalMartialArts may disqualify them though... how is a lawn roller (a large cylinder of concrete attached to an iron handle bar, used to flatten landscapes) an improvised weapon when you're strong enough to throw it?

* Lucy of ''Manga/ElfenLied'' does this using her vectors to throw things with blinding speed and accuracy, including pens on numerous occasions.

* In the final battle of ''Manga/Parasyte'' between Shinichi and Gotou, Shinichi is at a severe disadvantage; through a convuluted series of events, Migi, [[ItMakesSenseInContext his alien right hand who can manipulate his form to help Shinichi fight,]] [[spoiler: has disconnected himself from Shinichi's body -- this means that Shinichi has only one arm and his wits at his disposal to fight off this extremely powerful being with SuperStrength and SuperReflexes who can manipulate his body to [[CatchAndReturn deflect bullets]] or turn hard as steel. After being beaten within an inch of his life so hard that he [[BloodFromTheMouth coughs up blood,]] Shinichi's caught laying in a pile of trash at Gotou's mercy; he attempts a total hail mary by stabbing Gotou in what he hopes to be his one tiny weak point with a metal rod he pulls out of the pile. It is indeed the weak point, and Gotou crumples. It might not have done much by itself, but that rod just so happened to be covered with a poisonous pollutant from the pile that rips Gotou's body apart from the inside, defeating him.]]

* In the final battle of ''Manga/Parasyte'' between Shinichi and Gotou, Shinichi is at a severe disadvantage; through a convuluted series of events, Migi, [[ItMakesSenseInContext his alien right hand who can manipulate his form to help Shinichi fight,]] [[spoiler: has disconnected himself from Shinichi's body -- this means that Shinichi has only one arm and his wits at his disposal to fight off this extremely powerful being with SuperStrength and SuperReflexes who can manipulate his body to [[CatchAndReturn deflect bullets]] or turn hard as steel. After being beaten within an inch of his life so hard that he [[BloodFromTheMouth coughs up blood,]] Shinichi's caught laying in a pile of trash at Gotou's mercy; he attempts a total hail mary by [[spoiler: stabbing Gotou in what he hopes to be his one tiny weak point with a metal rod he pulls out of the pile. It is indeed the weak point, and Gotou crumples. It might not have done much by itself, but that rod just so happened to be covered with a poisonous pollutant from the pile that rips Gotou's body apart from the inside, defeating him.]]

* In the final battle of ''Manga/Parasyte'' between Shinichi and Gotou, Shinichi is at a severe disadvantage; through a convuluted series of events, Migi, [[ItMakesSenseInContext his alien right hand who can manipulate his form to help Shinichi fight,]] [[spoiler: has disconnected himself from Shinichi's body -- this means that Shinichi has only one arm and his wits at his disposal to fight off this extremely powerful being with SuperStrength and SuperReflexes who can manipulate his body to [[CatchAndReturn deflect bullets]] or turn hard as steel. After being beaten within an inch of his life so hard that he [[BloodFromTheMouth coughs up blood,]] Shinichi's caught laying in a pile of trash at Gotou's mercy; he attempts a total hail mary by [[spoiler: stabbing Gotou in what he hopes to be his one tiny weak point with a metal rod he pulls out of the pile. It is indeed the weak point, and Gotou crumples. It might not have done much by itself, but that rod just so happened to be covered with a poisonous pollutant from the pile that rips Gotou's body apart from the inside, defeating him.]]]]

* In the final battle of ''Manga/Parasyte'' between Shinichi and Gotou, Shinichi is at a severe disadvantage; through a convuluted series of events, Migi, [[ItMakesSenseInContext his alien right hand who can manipulate his form to help Shinichi fight,]] has disconnected himself from Shinichi's body]] -- this means that Shinichi has only one arm and his wits at his disposal to fight off this extremely powerful being with SuperStrength and SuperReflexes who can manipulate his body to [[CatchAndReturn deflect bullets]] or turn hard as steel. After being beaten within an inch of his life so hard that he [[BloodFromTheMouth coughs up blood,]] Shinichi's caught laying in a pile of trash at Gotou's mercy; he attempts a total hail mary by [[spoiler: stabbing Gotou in what he hopes to be his one tiny weak point with a metal rod he pulls out of the pile. It is indeed the weak point, and Gotou crumples. It might not have done much by itself, but that rod just so happened to be covered with a poisonous pollutant from the pile that rips Gotou's body apart from the inside, defeating him.]]

* In ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', Conan can kick anything at the bad guys and knock them out (granted, he ''does'' have power-boosting sneakers invented by his GadgeteerGenius neighbor), and he was a pretty good soccer player anyway.

* Cilan, in an episode of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', has his Pokemon incapacitated due to poisoning. So he has to fight off a Stunfisk with a fishing rod. He is able to keep the Pokemon at bay [[spoiler:and sufficiently weaken it enough to catch it]].